When browsing on the website of ParaView, I saw that the oldest version for download is v0.2. I tried to build it with CMake, but I get the following error:
ParaView requires VTK to build. Please set VTK_BINARY_DIR to directory where vtkConfigure.h and UseVTK.cmake are found.
I guess that v0.2 did not ship VTK with its source code. Which version of VTK should I use with ParaView 0.2? The earliest VTK version in the Git repository is 9.3.0.
Hello @CsatiZoltan , old ParaView enthusiast here. I managed to build v0.6 a couple of years ago with a modern toolchain after some patching. v0.2 should not be too different.
Here is the patched ParaView branch: https://gitlab.kitware.com/lgombert/paraview/-/tree/fix-paraview0.6?ref_type=heads
And here the VTK branch: https://gitlab.kitware.com/lgombert/vtk/-/tree/fix-paraview0.6?ref_type=heads
You’ll need to use CMake 1.5 to configure the project, which itself can build just fine using current-day CMake.
Hilariously, the resulting executable is a single 30M statically-linked executable. My favorite hobby is sharing it via gchat. I can email it to you if you wish 
Tell me how the compilation goes!
Thank you, I will try it in my free time. Your patches require knowledge in the C++ and Tcl codes of ParaView and VTK, which I currently don’t have. It would be cool to make PV 0.2 work, a real dinosaur!